NVIDIA RTX 2000 Ada Generation vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

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NVIDIA RTX 2000 Ada Generation NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM RTX 2000 Ada Generation and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA RTX 2000 Ada Generation 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 81% (2130MHz vs 1178MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)

1152 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (70W vs 148W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

RTX 2000 Ada Generation +206%

12 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970

3.92 TFLOPS

RTX 2000 Ada Generation

VS

GeForce GTX 970

Graphics Card

Feb 2024

Release Date

Sep 2014

Quadro Ada

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1620 MHz

Base Clock

1050 MHz

2130 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

22

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

2816

Shading Units

1664

88

TMUs

104

48

ROPs

56

88

Tensor Cores

-

22

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

12 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

102.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

65.97 GPixel/s

187.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

122.5 GTexel/s

12.00 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.00 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.920 TFLOPS

187.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

122.5 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

AD107

GPU Name

GM204

-

GPU Variant

GM204-200-A1

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

28 nm

18.9 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

159 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

Board Design

70W

TDP

148W

250 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

8.9

CUDA

5.2

6.7

Shader Model

6.4

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